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Office No. 61. Residence, No. 17. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1912 LOCAL AND PERSONAL, Mr. Gus Merrimon came over from Sumter and spent several days 1?re last week. He returned Thurs day accompanied by Mrs. Merrimon. Mr. T. B. Culbreatb is contem plating moving his family to Edge field later in the fall. Edgefield will extend a warm welcome to these good people. We have just received a fresh shipment of the celebrated Norris candy, which is second to none on the market. B. Timmons. FOR SALE-Sixteen Essex pigs, Can n_ate, not kin. J. D. Kemp, 10-2-2t Kirksey, S. C. For pretty girls and handsome boys, the session of 1912-13 has already become famous. Cupid is greatly elated over his prospects also for a successful year. PHOTOGRAPHS.-See Miss Eliza Mims' specimens of photo graph work in Mr. W. A. Hart's windows; children a specialty studio at residenoe. Mrs. Emmie Rankin of Jackson ville, Fla., visited her brother, Mr. Beauregard Timmons, last week. She visited relatives at Wiuterseat atid in Greenwood befere coming to Edgefield' Miss Madge Turner left Saturday foj; Baltimore to take special les sons in vocal culture. Besides being a vocalist of unusual gifts, Miss Madge performs beautifully on the piano. The regular service at the Bap tist church Sunday aight was a welcome service to the faculty and student body of the S. C. C. L, Dr. Jeffries selecting as his subject, *'The pleasures of preparation." The annual notice of the county treasurer is published in this issue, giving the state, county and special levies. If yOu remember what amount you returned your property at you can figure out your taxes. What about your fall printing? The Advertiser job office is turning out some first-class work almost every day. Better send in your or ders. Satisfaction guaranteed on ?very job sent out. Miss Ellie Mae Miller, a daughter of Mr. James L. Miller of Collier, went to Gaffney last Wednesday to enter Limestone. Her father has been thoughtful enough to send her The Advertiser for the session. The commissioners of Federal and State and County elections beld a preliminary meeting Mon day. Another meeting will be h?ld In about ten days for the purpose of appointing managers and pub lishing notices of election. Calhoun A. Mays, Esq., who is now a prominent yoang lawyer of the Greenwood bar, spent Wednes day and Thursday last here on business. His narie has been one of the latest additions lo The Adver tiser's subscription list. Rev. C. E. Bailey has returned from the South Carolina presbytery. Through hisiniiuence Edgefield and ?Saluda counties were taken from the South Carolina presbytery and annexed to the Charleston presby lery Mrs. M. J. Green, who resides in Xancaster county, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Coch ran. She is accompanied by her pretty little daughter. The friends of Mrs. Green will be happy to learn that ber health has greatly improved. She spent most of the summer in the mountains of North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Sullivan ..spent several hours in town Satur day while en route from a visit to their sister and brothers who reside at the old home near Horn's Creek. They were accompanied by their four sweet little girls. The oldest .one has promised to write a letter from her school for The Adverti 3Ser. Miss Jean Corrie is visiting rela tives in Edgefield, having stopped bere while en route to her home in 2iew Orleans from Montreat, N. C., .where she spent tho summer with ber cousins, ?Miss Grace Tompkins and Mr. D. A. Tompkins. Miss Corrie possesses very decided talent as an artist, having only recently painted a portrait of Governor-elect .Locke Craige of North Carolina. Misses Mary Strother and Elise Lake will return to the Confederate Home school in Charleston today. The petit jury for the second week is published in this issue. A third jury will be drawn next week. Mr. Lee Holmes of Charleston, a son of the late Baron Holmes, visited relatives here Monday. Look through our advertisement column? and see what valuable real estate will be sold at public outcry next Monday. The fall term cf court of general sessions will convene next Monday, with the Hon. S. W. G. Shi pp as presiding judge. Mrs. W. L. Dunovaut left Edge field on Friday to attend a mission ary assemblage of the Presbyterian church at Donalds. Mrs. W. P. Calhoun has returned from a delightful visit to her broth er, John A. Boykin, Esq., in At lanta. Married, Sunday afternoon, Sep tember 30, by Rev. P. B. Lanham, Miss Mary Shaw and Mr. G. B. Lanham, at the residence of the officiating minister. _ $?Mr. J. D. Holstein left this morn ing for New York to purchase a stock of holiday goods for Penn & Holstein. He was accompanied by Mrs. Holetein. Mr. A. R. Nicholson has moved his family to Edgefield to reside, occupying the residence of Mr. W. W. Sheppard. The people of our town extends them a most cordial welcome. . Mr. W. (X Lynch has employed Mr. Charles Roper to serve as sales man at the Lynch drug store. Mr. Roper will be pleased to have his friends call upon him at this popu lar store. Mr. V. E. Mims hae resigned his position with the Lynch drug store and has returned to his hometown, Timmonsville. Mr. Mims icuves many friends in Edgefield who re gretted his departure from among us. The steady growth of The Ad vertiser's subscription list is ex ceedingly gratifying. Scarcely a day passes without the addition of the name of some good, representa tive citizen to our list. You fussed all day and some time times all night in August beoause of the intense heat. Now don't be gin fussin' just because the bracing air of October is suggestive of the approach of winter. "Who will be the first pupil of the public schools of the county to send the fi m school letter to The Ad vertiser? After all of the schools open at least half a dozen should appear every week. Rev. and Mrs. E. T. Snuggs re turned on Saturday night from a visit to the Woman's Missionary Union of Darlington and Chester field associations. They are at pres ent boarding at Mrs. Melliohamp's near the college. The young man who desires to make his best girl smile more sweet ly than is her wont should go straightway to the Timmons drug store and purchase a box of candy that has just arrived by express. Try it and if she fails to smile The Advertiser will ''pay the freight." The Woman's Christian Temper ance Union will meet at the resi dence of Mrs. J. L. Mims on Mon day afternoon October 7, at 4 o'clock. All members are cordially invited to be prepent. Officers will be' elected, and a report of the re cent state convention in Anderson will be made. In the matter of working early and late, Mr. Abney Parkscan put the busy bee and the indefatigable little ant to shame. And the best part of it is Abnev goes about his work whistling. When have you seen him in a bad humor, notwith standing the fact that he daily deals with all sorts and conditions of men and women. He either exercis es wonderful tact or has a saintly disposition. Millinery Opening. Mr. Rubenstein's millinery open ing has not failed to attract the ladies who were cordially received by Miss Gramlin, assisted by Miss Ida Covar who has had large expe rience in pleading the Edgefield millinery huyers. Mr. Rubenstein is highly delighted with hin open ing. Miss Gramlin is to be con gratulated upon her splendid dis play of beautiful millinery which indicates that the purchaser has un usual taste. Rev. John Lake Visited His Boyhood Home. My Dear Jule: Eight years ago to-day I sailed from San Francisco for China. By a sweet coincidence, my wife and I were privileged to accept to-day the graceful hospitali ty of Gov. and Mrs. J. C. Shep pard in the delightful reception they gave us; and tonight my mind is going over that meeting with old friends and over the events of thc past three days-days crowded with the scenes and the memories of my boyhood days in dear old Edgebeld and Edgefield countj. For several weeks we have been enjoying the hospitality of hoims like yours in the town, and like Brother Littlejohn'* in the country, and enjoying the blessed fellowship, of old friends in the churches from Republican all the way to Bethel skipping some, to which we hope to go later-and now the past three days took me to my very home! Mrs. Lake and I were fortunata to have the guidance and guardian ship of Mrs. Mamie Norris Tillman on the trip-a guidance and a guar dianship like your own dear Flor ence's-and we met more friends and enjoyed more royal hospitality in three days than a book of a thousand pages could record. Up tho old Blocker road we went, by ancient Blockerville, of which no trace is left, past the Blocker cemetery where lie generations of my ancestors, past the "old Lake place" where I first saw the light and the private burying giound, where lie my father's parents-on, on, through the scenes of my boy hood, fraught with memories too tender, too sacred for utterence, to the very top of Boles Mountain, to the highest house in the county, and about the highest evidence of Edgefield county enterprise. How Mr. and Mrs. Will Strom and their sweet children did take the way farers in, on that rainy night be fore the Sunday meeting of the "union" at Mountain creek, and on the night following; how I contrast ed that splendid villa-home with the bare rock on which Col. James T. Bacon and I sat and ate our lunch one day, Borne twenty years ago; how my heart leaped when I stood before the great congregation at Mountain creek, the church of my ancestors nearly a century ago, how can I find words to express it? Spend eight years in a foreign land, amid plagues and typhoons and mobs and revolution and lone ly, pitiless toiling-no longer lone ly, thank God and her! drink only boiled water in that tropical land, preach only in a foreign tongue and then come back to native land and childhood haunts and graves of father and mother and kindred and friends-come back to such kind ness and hospitality, to such ready response to your own heart's ap peal-and you will know-not till then! On the return journey we dined in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Minick-beloved cousins, with other beloved cousins and friends; we plucked a spray of my mother's favorite star jessamine that she and I planted together near ly thirty years ago; we stood at the grave of the sainted great grand mother who dedicated me, a babe in arms, to the ministry-they even say to the work of a missionary; passed the homes, the Pleasant Lane store, the bridge, the ford, the for ests and the fields-all mine, mine, by siiiht of memory's might and love's conquest-my homes, the homes of my people! and I am back in dear old Edgefield, ready to meet the preaching engagements of the next few months-till June - ind then ready to sail for eight more years in China, happier, younger, better, by God's grace, for the pilgrimage to all those sacred shrines and familiar scenes. God bless the people, old and young, white and black, to whom I spoke the word of Life during thone hallowed days, and, shall I say it in closing, God bless that sweet mother of Edgefield's first foreign missionary who sits in ber old home so near to the tomb of lier own ''June" Nicholson, and God raised up thosr who are to take her place and our6 when wo too have gone to be with the great Head of the church. John Lake. Edgefield, S. C. WANTED: The Cosmopolitan Group requires the service of a representative in Edgefield and sur rounding territory, to look after sub scription renewals, and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually suc cessful. Salary and commission. Previous experience desirable but not essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with references, Charles C. Schwer, The Cosmopoli tan Group, 381 Fourth ?Ave., New York City. Treasurer's Notice. The County Treasurer's office will be open for the purpose of receiving taxes from the 15th day of October, 1912, to the 15th day of March, 1913. All taxes shall be due'and payable be tween thc 15th day of October, 1912, and December 3ist, 1912. That when taxes charged shall not be;.paid by December 31st, 1912, the County Auditor shall proceed to add a petrSilty of one per cent for January, and if taxes are not paid on or before February 1st, 1913, the County Auditor will proceed to add two per cent, and five per cent from 1st of March to the 15th of March. After which time all unpaid taxes will be collected by the Sheriff. The tax levies for the year 1912 are as follows: For State purposes 5 3-4 mills. " Ordinary County 41-2 " 14 Cons. School tax 3 " " Special County tax 2 3-4 " " Bacon S. D, Special 2 " *- Edgefield S. D. 2 " V Long Cane S. D. 3 " " Liberty Hill S. D. 3 " " Johnston S. D. 5 " V Collier S. D. 3 " " Flat Rock S. D 4 " " Prescott S. D. 3 " " Plum Branch S. D. No 1 5 " " White Town SD 3 M " Trenton SD 2 " Ward SD. 2 " " Moss SD 3 " Parksville SD 3 " " Washington SD 2 " 44 Oak Grove SD 3 " 44 Red Hill SD 2 1-2 " ?? Shaw 2 44 44 R R Bonds Wise T's'p 11-4 44 44 R R Bonds Pickens 3 " 44 RR Bonds Johnston 3 44 "RR Bonds Pine Grove 12 " " R R Bonds Blocker 1:' " " ?. Bonds Town Edgefield 1-2 " 44 School Bonds 1 " 44 Town of Edgefield Corporation Purposes 10 " All male citizens between the ages of 21 years and 60 years except those ex empt by law are liable to a poll tax of One Dollar each. A capitation tax of 50 cents each is to be paid on all dogs. The law prescribes that all male citi zens between the ages of IS and 55 yearn must pay S2.00 commutation tax or work six days on the public roads. As this is optional with the individual, no commutation tax is included in thc property tax. So ask for road tax re ceipt when you desire to pay road tax. James T. Mims, Co. Treas. E. C. Was Too Valuable. In thc soft firelight even thc boarding house sitting room looked cosey au-1, attractive. The warmth and comfort thawed the heart of the star boarder. In an expansive moment he turn ed to the landlady, who was his on ly companion in the room. Clasp ing her hand fondly, he murmercd: "Will you be my wife?" The woman did not start or blush; cc maidenly coyness shone from her dear, told eyes, as she replied thoughtfully: '"Let me see. You have been here four years. You have never once grumbled at the food, or fail ed to pay your bill promptly and without question. No, sir; I'm sor ry, but I cannot marry you. You're too good a boarder to be put on the free list." c rastreara We Are Outfi fE desire to the p field county tl of fall and wi complete. W chased direc largest mani the country a prices very re See our la stylish suits men. All we the popular c fit you in a We sell the otner reliable Try a Pair of Crossett Every Pair Guaranteed They represent the Dorn & Mims ^HIIIII ii1 ii"iM? mi mn i i i i CHURCH NOTICES!! Baptist church services 11:30 a. m. and 3:00 p. m. Evening subject, "Dealing with evil doers," Pastor Jeffries preaching. A special feature of the Metho dist service at Trenton next Sun day afternoon at 4 o'clock will be a solo by Miss Roseva Harrison, "For yon I am praying." Let every body in and around Trenton attend nome service the first Sunday in October. J. R. Walker. Rally Service at Trenton. Despite the dark and threaten ing weather a good many attended the Sunday school rally at Trenton Methodist church last Sunday night. A good service was held. The people sang heartily. Talks were made by Mr. W. M. Leppaid, Mr. W. D. Holland and the pastor. J. R. Wal Ker. Splendid Rally Day. The Sunday school rally it Edge field Methodist church was a decid ed success. The classes were well represent ed. Good reports were made by teaeben Interesting talks were given by Mr. B. E. Nicholson, teacher of men's class and Mr. J. Si. Cobb, superintendent of Sunday school. The singing was lively and inspiring. The school is supporting a na tive worker in China beginning August SI, 1912. An offering was taken for this. The main offering was for Ep worth orphanage. On next Sunday the three lowest grades in the school begin to use the graded literature. During the past year the im provements in the school a.e: 1. Support of native missionary. 2. Graded lessons planned for. '?. Men's class organized and en rolled as Wesley Adult class. 4. Two classes already organized have lately been enrolled at head quarters, the young ladies, and the teacher training class. 5. Enrollment hugely increased. Officers, teachers and pupils de serve congratulations. J. lt. Walker. Farm For Sale. I offer for sale 83^ acres of good land li miles from the Edgefield school, adjoining lands of Mr. Mil ton Parker and M. H. Deal. Terms of sale, $2,000, one-half cash and the balance in four years, $250 per year at 7 per cent, interest. Titles guaranteed. F. L. PARKER. Johnson, S. JC tiers for boys Men to announce eople of Edge hat our stock nter goods is e have pur it from the ufacturers in nd can make asonable. rge stoc? of for boys and aves in all of olorf. Let us new fall hat Stetson and brands. or Selz-Schawb shoes, to Give Satisfaction, very acme of &tyle. nitxiMiM^WKsagjffs.mm\wJ CLASSIED COLUMN. WANTED-A man in Edgefield that ean produce results to handle* a money making proposition. Write itating experience in suiiciting and bow much time you can give to it. W, Box 476, Columbia, S. C. 9-18-2t FOR SALE: Appier seed oats at 70 cents per bushel. Georgia Blue Stem YYheat, made 24 bushels per acre this year, at $1.50 per bushel. Apply to L. G. Watson, 0-ll-4t. Trenton, S. C. FOR SALE-Furnished hotel in? Lo A'n of Edgefield, centrally locat ed, well establibhed business. Terms reasonable. Apply to Mrs. D. S. DuBose, Box 75 Edgefield, S. C. L 0-2-41 TO ORDER ora mw^^amm. II ?i ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^jji Sri - ?? mn lil Jt's not the clothes |S SS th?t makes the man, K| 5:5 t's the maa that Sj? 53 m ikes the clothes to Sis II? ?it. at prices to suit the S3 EtS pocket. E!2 cnn 1 mm Si" When it comes to that we BS atm are it. Ej3 nj! Whwn it com? s to price, gig ~-t- fit and workmanship we are =;g mg them also. We are on the gj. ?! corner of satisfaction and jus- gj" gf; tice streets, opposite depot. =j? 555 Watch for display at the Stf Sin county fair. gS I 0. P. Bright_ I Bttjflisitggpaatgyf^rraraBtMBjBiiiaiawS Large stoek of wagon aud buggy harness, also parts of harness. See our saddles, bridles and blanket* before buyi?g. Ramsey & Jones.